Tele Atlas and AtlasCT Team Up to Power Innovative Mobile Mapping Applications
Written by Tele Atlas
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Tele Atlas digital maps and rich POI content selected to help enrich LBS Applications
24 July 2008, Gent, Belgium –Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, announced today it is now supplying global digital maps to AtlasCT, a leading developer and provider of worldwide mobile mapping solutions. Through the new agreement, Tele Atlas will provide comprehensive, up-to-date digital maps, along with rich points of interest (POIs) information, to support AtlasCT’s location-based services applications such as ‘cometogethr’, City Cruiser and reLive!™.
“AtlasCT delivers innovative solutions for web, fleet management and mobile phone users. We share a strong belief in the future of wireless mapping applications and together, we will explore opportunities in additional market segments such as fleet management and geographic information systems (GIS), combining our expertise to help create new solutions and new business opportunities,” says Laurent De Hauwere, Vice President Marketing EMEA at Tele Atlas.
“Tele Atlas’ global map coverage and enhanced information will enable us leverage our offering for both Mobile and Web platforms. Tele Atlas believes strongly in the future of the mobile mapping market just as we do. Together, we can set the quality standard for this most challenging market and develop exciting new location aware services,” says Danny On, General Manager at AtlasCT.
AtlasCT has successfully linked the mobile phone with a series of innovative map-based applications that have been adopted by leading phone makers and network operators. The applications run on Internet-enabled mobile phones to access maps, POIs and additional information provided by Tele Atlas and other suppliers. The data is held on servers located around the globe ensuring high availability and scalability.
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power many of the world’s most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS). Through a combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1984 and has approximately 2,500 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices in 24 countries. Today, Tele Atlas maps are developed with the insight of a community of millions of GPS system users worldwide, who are adding to the company’s unmatched network of sources to track and validate changes in real time, and deliver the best digital maps and dynamic content. For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com. Tele Atlas is a subsidiary of TomTom N.V.
About AtlasCT
AtlasCT is a leading developer and provider of worldwide mapping solutions. Our products are designed to supply a variety of mapping capabilities and location-based services (LBS) for both web and mobile platforms.Our leading edge technology delivers high quality map images combined with excellent application performance.
AtlasCT is the owner and developer of ABmaps.com, a global maps portal. The portal provides a variety of free geospatial services. AtlasCT is a member of key development forums and of the Israel Mobile Association. For more information about products and technology please visit: www.atlasct.com.
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